Re: Same name (was Re: Brithenig-heads)

At 02:18 PM 4/11/2000 -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
>Hernando/Hernán are simply the Castillian forms of (non-Castillian)
>Fernando/Fernán. The husband of Queen Isabela is always referred to as
>Fernando--  IIRC he was Aragonese.
>Don't know whether (F/H)ernando ~Ferdinand is Germanic or Latinate, but IMHO
>it's unlikely to be connected with Germán (Fr. Germain(e); a saint).  Indeed,
>that's germanic, a kin-term (cousin?), and survives in Sp. hermano/a, Port.
>irmão, irmã "brother/sister".
My sources say that the kinship terms come from Latin germanus/-a, words
native to Latin and related to germen, "offshoot."